P5B Week Beginning 9th June 2025

Dear P5B Families,

I cannot believe we only have 2 weeks of term left!  I hope we manage to squeeze in lots of memories and learning experiences before then.

Your child took home a letter this week inviting donations of unopened, shop bought food from a given country.  If you are unable to provide a donation of food from that country, any donation will be welcome from the countries we are learning about: Poland, India, Slovakia and Bulgaria.

Here are the learning highlights from the Blue Table:

David and Aaeryn-Leigh have been enjoying learning about equivalent fractions.  Next week we will move on to mixed fractions.

Nicolas, Addison and Nathan have loved researching about a given country.  Some topics have included: the language, location, currency, traditional food, music and dress and any other subject the children wanted to learn about.  Each group will then present their findings to the class on Thursday.  We are all looking forward to this very much!  Some other interesting things some groups have included have been: famous landmarks, football teams and the president/ruler.

Amelia said she enjoyed PE where the children used measuring tapes to measure how far they were able to jump (following on from Miss Howe’s teaching of the Long Jump).  I witnessed super team work, as each child was involved in holding the mats, marking with chalk, measuring and recording the lengths jumped.

Olivia and Ellie-May recount how the learning highlight of the week for them was listening to our class novel in the woods.

Adya S liked learning about The Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary.  So far the children have learned about the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries.  Next week we will move on to the Luminous Mysteries.

Flynn loved the movie and popcorn reward for all the hard work the children did for their Climate Smart schools.  Unfortunately, due to the cyber attack, we were having some difficultly hot spotting via my phone and did not get to finish the movie.  Hopefully we can watch the ending during the final week of term.

Sean (and my) highlight has been the narrative story the class wrote together and then moved on to writing their individual narratives, following the features of: orientation, complication and resolution.  So far, the children have written their own orientations which all sound so captivating!  I look forward to seeing how each story progresses!

Congratulations to Nicolas our hot chocolate award winner this week and a big thank you to David and Anthony for the pic collages.

We are experiencing some technical difficulties uploading photographs.  I will add them as soon as this is possible.  Watch this space!

Mrs Brown